Donald Trump Says He Wants Joe Biden Tested For Mind-Enhancing Drugs
President Donald Trump claimed that Joe Biden’s good performance in his debate against Senator Bernie Sanders in March could be evidence that the former Vice President is taking mind-enhancing drugs. He told the Washington Examiner that because of this suspicion, he wants Biden tested prior to their upcoming debates.
“Nobody thought that he was even going to win. Because his debate performances were so bad,” Trump told the Examiner while speaking in the Oval Office. “Frankly, his best performance was against Bernie. We’re going to call for a drug test, by the way, because his best performance was against Bernie.”
Trump offered no evidence to support the idea that Biden had taken any drugs, other than his debate performance. However, the president claimed to be adept at determining these types of things and said that someone had suggested to him that Biden’s improved capacity could be the result of mind-enhancing drugs.
Trump went on to say that while Biden’s success wasn’t history-making, it was good enough that it raised questions in his mind.
“It wasn’t that he was Winston Churchill, because he wasn’t, but it was a normal, boring debate. You know, nothing amazing happened. And we are going to call for a drug test, because there’s no way — you can’t do that,” he said.
The president stated that Biden was “incompetent” in his other debates and then rapidly improved when he was debating the Vermont Senator.
He went on to say that Biden “was so bad. He wasn’t even coherent. And against Bernie, he was. And we’re calling for a drug test.”
Trump was referring to the March 15 primary debate where Biden and Sanders faced off one on one for the first time.
The news outlet questioned whether Trump thought that candidates should be checked prior to a debate like fighters are tested before a prizefight. He replied that a debate was no different than a prizefight except that the combatants use their minds instead of their fists.
Trump said that he would also submit to a drug check, but insisted that he only takes one aspirin each day.
This isn’t the first time Trump has accused his opponent of taking drugs in order to excel in a debate. He previously claimed that Hillary Clinton should have been checked prior to their October 2016 face-off.
It’s also not the first time Trump has attacked Biden’s mental fitness. The Democratic presidential candidate responded, saying that he is more fit to lead the country than the current occupant of the Oval Office.
